Nilaveli
Nilaveli is a coastal resort town and suburb of the Trincomalee District, Sri Lanka located 16 km northwest of the city of Trincomalee. A historically popular Tamil village and tourist destination of the district alongside the nearby Uppuveli, the numbers of visitors declined following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and Sri Lankan Civil War, but have risen again since 2010.
- Type: Village
- Description: town in Sri Lanka
- Also known as: “நிலாவெளி கடற்கரை”
Nilaveli
- Categories: human settlement, beach, and locality
- Location: Kuchchaveli Divisional Secretariat, Trincomalee District, Eastern Province, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
8.6815° or 8° 40′ 54″ north
Longitude
81.1916° or 81° 11′ 30″ east
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
Open location code
6MW3M5JR+JJ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Tamil—“Nilaveli” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Нилавели”
- Cebuano: “Nilaveli”
- Czech: “Nilaveli”
- Dutch: “Nilaveli”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نيلافيلى”
- French: “Nilaveli”
- German: “Nilaveli”
- Hungarian: “Nilaveli”
- Irish: “Nilaveli”
- Italian: “Nilaveli”
- Japanese: “ニラヴェリ”
- Persian: “نیلاولی”
- Polish: “Nilaveli”
- Romanian: “Nilaveli”
- Sinhala: “නිලාවෙලි”
- Slovak: “Nilaveli”
- Swedish: “Nilaveli”
- Tamil: “நிலாவெளி”
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